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A recently released 15-minute version of the alleged conversation between Los Angeles Clippersowner Donald Sterling and his reported girlfriend shows the beleaguered longtime NBA executive – if this is indeed proved to be him, as many have presumed – to be just as inscrutable and misogynistic as he is racist and downright clueless.

Woman: Do you know that you have a whole team that's black that plays for you?

Man: You just, do I know? I support them and give them food and clothes and cars and houses. Who gives it to them? Does someone else give it to them? Do I know that I have – who makes the game? Do I make the game, or do they make the game? Is there 30 owners that created the league?

Sterling also went on to chide his girlfriend, who is being sued by Sterling’s longtime wife, for having an “evil heart.” And his views on women in general can probably be tidily summed up with this alleged exchange from Sterling:

Man: I don't want to change. If my girl can't do what I want, I don't want the girl. I'll find a girl that will do what I want! Believe me. I thought you were that girl—because I tried to do what you want. But you're not that girl.

The quickness and alacrity in which Sterling, allegedly, gets to his talking points suggests this is not the first time he has had conversations along these lines. Just as surprising as it is to hear comments like these come from sentient human beings in 2014, it’s also more than a little shocking alleged tapes of Sterling like these haven’t been produced prior to 2014.